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Can raising awareness of racial bias subsequently reduce that bias? We address this question by exploiting the … widespread media attention highlighting racial bias among professional basketball referees that occurred in May 2007 following … the release of an academic study. Using new data, we confirm that racial bias persisted in the years after the study …
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) reduction of uncertainty by information search, leading to less stereotyping of people, and hence less discrimination; (ii … discrimination against an outgroup. We integrate both responses in a microeconomic model of hiring and pay decisions by an employer … hence enhances discrimination. …
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We investigate the emergence of discrimination in an experiment where individuals affiliated to different groups … the bids (i.e. there is no statistical discrimination), and she has no monetary incentive to favour the members of her own … group (the bidders are symmetric). We observe nonetheless some discrimination by auctioneers, who tend to assign the prize …
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We provide experimental evidence of workers' ingratiation by opinion conformity and of managers' discrimination in …
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-term evaluations of adolescent interventions, but workplace-based programs that teach character skills are promising. The common … feature of successful interventions across all stages of the life cycle through adulthood is that they promote attachment and … provide a secure base for exploration and learning for the child. Successful interventions emulate the mentoring environments …
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-term evaluations of adolescent interventions, but workplace-based programs that teach character skills are promising. The common … feature of successful interventions across all stages of the life cycle through adulthood is that they promote attachment and … provide a secure base for exploration and learning for the child. Successful interventions emulate the mentoring environments …
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children, which can be seen as evidence of sexual bias related to a commonly believed existing preference for boys. …
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We characterize the bias of propensity score based estimators of common average treatment effect parameters in the case …
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Data from 31 countries participating in the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) is used to estimate education production functions for reading literacy. The analysis suggests that the probability of finding statistically significant and correctly signed class size effects...
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This paper introduces bias-corrected estimators for nonlinear panel data models with both time invariant and time …/selection bias. We then estimate the primary equation by fixed effects including an appropriately constructed control function from … both steps might employ nonlinear fixed effects procedures it is necessary to bias adjust the estimates due to the …
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